Chester Smith Lyman (January 13, 1814–January 29, 1890) was an American teacher, clergyman, inventor and astronomer. He was born in Manchester, Connecticut to Chester and Mary Smith Lyman. Chester ...

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Daniel Drawbaugh Eyster was an illustrator/artist and engineer-inventor. Eyster was involved in the development of the Norden bombsight. For his contribution to this top-secret World War II military pr...

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Daniel Drawbaugh was a purported inventor of the telephone for which he sought a patent in 1880. His claims were contested by the Bell Telephone Company, which won a court decision in 1888.[1] Descri...

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American inventor Isaac Merrit Singer made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Many had patented sewing machines before ...

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Silas Wright Titus (January 18, 1849-January 7, 1922) was an engineer who discovered and patented deep water pumping technology and discovered early water supplies for New York City and other towns a...

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Frank McDowell Leavitt (1856–1928) was an American engineer and inventor. Leavitt devised one of the earliest machines for manufacturing tin cans and later invented the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo, the chi...

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Col. Leavitt Hunt (1831–February 16, 1907) was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East. He and a companion, Nathan Flint Bake...

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Joseph Ludwig Franz Ressel (Czech: Josef Ludvík František Ressel; 29 June 1793 - 9 October 1857) was a Czech forest warden who designed a ship's propeller. Ressel was born in the Austrian monarch...

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "... James Watt , (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental t...

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American inventor Lloyd Groff Copeman had nearly 700 patents to his name. He invented an early form of the toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early for...

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William Rosecrans wrote about his elders: "I have a mother who loves me well. A father whose fortune is his father's blessing, with his own hands and my good mother. Father is strong-willed, a self-rel...

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Mary Ann was George's real Mom. the accounts vary on what happen to her after she was kidnapped. one of the accounts is below George Washington Carver (January 1864 - January 5, 1943), was an America...

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Jasper Adalmorn Maltby (November 3, 1826 – December 12, 1867) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He participated in two important campaigns in the Western Theater, includi...

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Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay (April 19, 1822 – September 3, 1875) was a member of the Confederate Secret Service and the inventor of the coal torpedo, a bomb disguised as a lump of coal that was used t...

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John Loudon McAdam (September 21, 1756 – November 26, 1836) was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that w...

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Major Patrick Ferguson (1744 – October 7, 1780) was a Scottish officer in the British Army, early advocate of light infantry and designer of the Ferguson rifle. He is best known for his service in th...

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William Longstreet (c.1760 New Jersey - 1814 Georgia) was an inventor. He made a steamboat and improved the cotton gin. As a boy, he moved to Augusta, Georgia. As early as 26 September 1790, he add...

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Robert Runnels Williams (February 16, 1886 - October 2, 1965) was an American chemist, known for being the first to synthesize thiamine (vitamin B1). He first isolated thiamine in 1933, and synthes...

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Stephen Wilcox, Jr. (February 12, 1830 – November 27, 1893) was an American inventor, best known as the co-inventor (with George Herman Babcock) of the water-tube boiler. They went on to found th...

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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turb...

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Rollin H. White was selected for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011. WHITE, ROLLIN HENRY (11 July 1872-10 Sept. 1962), a founder of WHITE MOTOR CORP. and Cleveland Tractor C...

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George Westinghouse, Jr (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was ...

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Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18, 1854 – December 13, 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. He is best known because his name was one o...

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Walter A. Sheaffer (January 27, 1867 – June 19, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman who developed the first commercially successful lever-filling fountain pen and founded the W.A. Sheaffer...

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Lewis Edson Waterman (November 18, 1837 – May 1, 1901), born in Decatur, New York, was the inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of the Waterman pen company. In 1883, Waterman...

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Frank Marion Wanlass (May 17, 1933 – September 9, 2010) was an electrical engineer. He obtained his PhD from the University of Utah. He invented CMOS logic circuits in 1963 while working at Fairchi...

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Squire Whipple C.E. (September 16, 1804 – March 15, 1888) was a civil engineer born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He studied at Fairfield Acade...

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William Erastus Upjohn (June 15, 1853 – October 18, 1932) was a medical doctor, founder and president of The Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company. He was named Person of the Century by the Kalamazoo Michi...

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Eli Terry Sr. (April 13, 1772 – February 24, 1852) was an inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut. He received a United States patent for a shelf clock mechanism. He introduced mass production to the ...

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Gordon Kidd Teal (January 10, 1907 – January 7, 2003) invented a method of applying the Czochralski method to produce extremely pure germanium single crystals used in making greatly improved transi...

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Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester...

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Donalee L. Tabern Born Jan 27 1900 - Died Dec 31 1974 Thiobarbituric Acid Derivatives Pentothal / Anesthesia Patent Number(s) 2,153,729 Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in ...

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Ambrose Swasey (December 19, 1846–June 15, 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the War...

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Louis Stevens Born April 15, 1925 - Died October 17, 2009 Data Storage Machine Patent #: 3,134,097 Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2008 Louis Stevens, working with Will...

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Colonel Robert Livingston Stevens (October 18, 1787 – April 20, 1856 Hoboken, New Jersey) was the son of Colonel John Stevens. In 1807, the father and son built the Phœnix, a steamship which became t...

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Edwin Augustus Stevens (July 28, 1795 – August 8, 1868) was an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who left a bequest that was used to establish the Stevens Institute of Technology. Early...

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) Col. John Stevens, III (1749 - March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer and an inventor. Life and career Born the son of John Stevens (1715–1792), a prominent New Jersey politician who s...

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. William Stanley, Jr. (November 28, 1858–May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. Biogra...

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Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous as co-inventor, with Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe of the gyrocompass. Sperry was born at C...

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James Spangler ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------- James Spangler invented a portable electric vacuum cleaner - the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner. In 1907, Ja...

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Games Slayter (December 9 1896 – October 15 1964) was a prolific U.S. inventor best known for developing Fiberglass. Dr. (Russell) Games Slayter, "Father of Fiberglas" Born Russell Games Slayter ...

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Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspa...

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Waldo Lonsbury Semon (September 10, 1898 – May 26, 1999) was a renowned American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama. Semon put his name into the history books for inventing vinyl, the world's se...

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William Sellers (September 19, 1824 – January 24, 1905) was a mechanical engineer, manufacturer, businessperson, and inventor who filed more than 90 patents, most notably the design for the United ...

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Joseph Saxton (1799-1873) was an American inventor, born at Huntingdon, Pa. He went to Philadelphia in 1817 and while there invented a machine for cutting the teeth of marine chronometer wheels, an...

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Wallace Clement Sabine (June 13, 1868 - January 10, 1919) was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1886 at the age of 18 ...

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John Raphael Rogers Born December 11, 1856 – February 18, 1934 Matrix for Linotype-Machine Patent #: 837,127 Inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2007 John Rogers invented a ...

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Safety, efficiency and profitability - these are the major reasons for the success of an invention. As well, an even greater qualification is when the invention revolutionizes an industry and an overwh...

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Valdemar Poulsen (23 November 1869 – 23 July 1942) was a Danish engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder in 1899. Biography He was born on 23 November 1869 in Copenhagen The magnetic rec...

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Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 – May 12, 1994) was the chemist who accidentally invented Teflon in 1938. He attended Newton High School. Plunkett was born in New Carlisle, Ohio and attended Manch...

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Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908) was an American inventor and is best known for developing the most efficient form of an impulse water turbine, the Pelton wheel. He is conside...

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Gerald L. Pearson Born March 31, 1905 - Died October 25, 1987 Silicon Solar Cell Patent #: 2,780,765 Inducted into the Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2008 Gerald Pearson's fundamental research in s...

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Charles Grafton Page (January 25, 1812 in Salem, Massachusetts – May 5, 1868 in Washington, D.C.) was an American electrical experimenter and inventor, physician, patent examiner, patent advocate, an...

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John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939. Early years Born in Newar...

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Alfred Nobel var en av fyra söner till Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872) och Andriette Nobel (flicknamn Ahlsell). Han och hans bröder levde i svåra förhållanden med en mycket sjuk fader. Hans bröder hette Rob...

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Eger V. Murphree Born Nov 3 1898 - Died Oct 29 1962 Method of and Apparatus for Contacting Solids and Gases Catalytic Cracking Patent Number(s) 2,451,804 Inducted into National Inventor's Hall ...

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) Lewis Miller (July 24, 1829 – February 17, 1899) was an Ohio businessman and philanthropist who made a fortune in the late 19th century as inventor of the first combine (harvester-reaper machine)...

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. Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. Midgely was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed ...

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Malcom Purcell McLean (born “Malcolm”; but late in life he changed his given name to its historic traditional Scottish spelling) (November 14, 1913 – May 25, 2001), born in Maxton, North Carolina, wa...

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Leander Hamilton McCormick (1859–1934) was an American author, inventor, art collector and sculptor. Life Hamilton McCormick (as he was known) was born in Chicago, May 27, 1859. His grandfather R...

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) Robert Hall McCormick From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert McCormick Robert McCormick (June 8, 1780 - July 4, 1846) was an American inventor, who invented numerous devices including a...

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Often credited for inventing the Reaper, which was created by a black slave named Jo Anderson. Cyrus McCormick got the patent because slaves were considered property and not citizens, thus could not le...

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Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was co-founder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and originally had the amateur call signs SNY, 1WH, 1ZM, (after World War I) 1AW, an...

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Hudson Maxim (February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927), was a U.S. inventor and chemist who invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder. He was the brother of Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor...

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Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 5, 1840 – November 24, 1916) was an American inventor who emigrated to England at the age of forty-one and adopted British citizenship. He was the inventor of the Ma...

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Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874– 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, known for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of...

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Jewish-American musician, born in New York City, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome. Leopold Mannes was son of David Mannes ...

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Henry Martyn Leland (February 16, 1843 – March 26, 1932) was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur who founded the two premier American luxury marques, Cadillac and Lincoln. H...

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William (Bill) Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. He also in...

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Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" ...

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Albert Kingsbury (23 December 1863 – 28 July 1943) was an American engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He was responsible for over fifty patents obtained between the years 1902 to 1930. Kingsbury ...

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Charles Francis Jenkins (August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934) was an American pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies....

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James M. Lilley (1802–1875), a prominent landowner and patented inventor of surveying instruments. He was commissioned in 1838 as a colonel in the Virginia militia. His son was Brig. General Robert D...

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Herbert Eugene Ives (July 21, 1882, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 13, 1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first ha...

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Ives, Frederic Eugene, 1856–1937, American inventor, b. Litchfield, Conn. A pioneer in the development of orthochromatic and trichromatic photography and of photoengraving, he followed an earlier sug...

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Walter Hunt (1796–1859) was an American mechanic. He lived and worked in New York state. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the sewing machine...

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George H. Hulett Born Sep 26 1846 - Died Jan 17 1923 Apparatus for Handling Ore Patent No. 652,313 Inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006 George Hulett invented the automatic unloading ...

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Benjamin Leroy Holt (January 1, 1849, Concord, New Hampshire, – December 5, 1920, Stockton, California) was an American inventor who was the first to patent and manufacture a first practical crawler-...

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Birdsill Holly (November 8, 1820 - April 27, 1894) was an inventor. Holly was born in Auburn, New York. He spent his early years in Seneca Falls, New York, a major center of water powered industries....

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Alexander Lyman Holley (20 July 1832 – 29 January 1882) was a mechanical engineer and was considered the foremost steel and plant engineer and designer of his time, especially in regard to applying r...

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Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of piece...

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Richard March Hoe (September 12, 1812 - June 7, 1886), was an American inventor who designed an improved printing press. Biography Hoe was born in New York City. He was the son of Robert Hoe (178...

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William R. Hewlett Born May 20 1913 - Died Jan 12 2001 Variable Frequency Oscillation Generator Audio Signals Patent Number(s) 2,268,872 Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1992 ...

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Beulah Louise Henry (February 11, 1887 – 1973) was an American inventor. In the 1930s, she was given the nickname "Lady Edison" for her many inventions. Her inventions include a bobbin-free sewin...

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Dr. William Edward "Butch" Hanford (December 9, 1908 – January 27, 1996) was an American chemist who is best known for developing the modern process to make multipurpose material polyurethane. Hanf...

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. John Hays Hammond, Jr. (April 13, 1888 – February 12, 1965) was an American inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control" and son of mining engineer John Hays Hammond, Sr.. Biography Born in ...

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Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, music enthusiast, and engineer. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producin...

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Leroy Randle "Roy" Grumman (4 January 1895 - 4 October 1982) was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and industrialist. Having been told of the U.S. Navy's desire for retractable landing...

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Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone pr...

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Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005) was an American physicist who is widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight...

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Wilbert L. "Bill" Gore (1912–1986) was a businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded W. L. Gore and Associates with his wife, Genevieve (Vieve). He gained international attention and respect for nurt...

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Hannibal Goodwin (1822–1900), was an Episcopal priest at the House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey, patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which...

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Leopold Godowsky, Jr. (May 27, 1900 - February 18, 1983) was an American violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome. This ...

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Joseph Farwell Glidden (January 18, 1813 – October 9, 1906) was an American farmer who patented barbed wire, a product that forever altered the development of the American West. Biography Glidden...

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King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman of French family Gillette, popularly known as the inventor of the safety razor, although several models were in existen...

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John Heysham Gibbon Jr., AB, MD, (September 29, 1903 – February 5, 1973) a surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing the first open heart surgery (a repair of an atrial...

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Calvin Souther Fuller From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born May 25, 1902(1902-05-25) Died October 28, 1994 (aged 92) Vero Beach, Florida Citizenship US Nationality American Fie...

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